I'm wondering if the issue is running from a Live CD or from a Frugal installation.

Here's what I have found:
Downloaded RWC-1.6.6.pet to Puppy-528.005 frugally installed on Dell Inspiron 600m.
Worked fine
Downloaded RWC-1.6.6.pet to Puppy-528.005 Live CD on ZaReason Big Lap.
No initiating of program - menu/desktop/wallpaper changer entry shows but nothing happens when requested.

In both cases I downloaded the .pet into my home folder *my-applications*.

Both Puppy-528.005 .isos taken from Barry's download site in November 2012.

Hope this helps.

Then there is my embarrassment...I'm looking for a screensaver not a wallpaper changer.

Here's what I have found:
Downloaded RWC-1.6.6.pet to Puppy-528.005 frugally installed on Dell Inspiron 600m.
Worked fine
Downloaded RWC-1.6.6.pet to Puppy-528.005 Live CD on ZaReason Big Lap.
No initiating of program - menu/desktop/wallpaper changer entry shows but nothing happens when requested.

Yeah, that's odd...
IOW, it looks like in the first case /usr/sbin/gtkdialog4 is present, but in the second case it's not.
Perhaps some sort of layer issue or sth..?
I'll try to investigate it some day...

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Then there is my embarrassment...I'm looking for a screensaver not a wallpaper changer.

I copied *my-pictures* file from *home* into /usr/share.
(I tried directing it to ~/my-pictures but that did not take, so, placed *my-pictures* in /usr/share)
Now, how do I make one picture slowly fade down and the next picture slowly fade up?

(I tried directing it to ~/my-pictures but that did not take, so, placed *my-pictures* in /usr/share)

Does that folder contains not only pictures or lots of them?
If so, it takes some time for qiv to scan them all...

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Now, how do I make one picture slowly fade down and the next picture slowly fade up?

Unfortunately it seems that qiv doesn't have such a feature...
There is also pqiv, but:

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-F Make "pqiv" fade between images. Currently this does only work for images of equal size.

(Besides, the fading isn't "slow" at all )
But if your collection contains pics, which have the same size, you can try it - just download and extract the .deb (i386) package from the above link, copy pqiv binary to SlideSaver directory and replace appropriate line in the script with, eg.:

Code:

"$APPDIR/pqiv" -ifFsSnnt -d $INTERVAL "$PICDIR" & QIV_PID=$!

Anyway, you can always do a search for an image viewer with features you're looking for and if you succeed, just modify that single line appropriately, according to 'found_image_viewer --help' printout.
(in case of doubt, just let know in this thread).

Anyway, you can always do a search for an image viewer with features you're looking for and if you succeed, just modify that single line appropriately, according to 'found_image_viewer --help' printout.

Where/how to I search for an *image viewer*? Through Google? What keywords to use? Am I looking for an image viewer written in a specific language?

Thank you SFR.

I am determined to find a slideshow screensaver that functions similar to the GLslideshow feature in GNOME's Xscreensaver.
I don't care if the pictures *scale* to the screen size.
I don't care if they *enter* stage right or left.
This bit of coding you've sent would be perfect if I can just make it slowly fade from random pic to random pic.

Doesn't matter in which language really - what matters is if it will work for you well, and it has to be "launchable" from command line (to be able to call it from script and use its internal options).

I suppose it's not too late in the year to wish you a Happy and Successful 2015 ?!

BFN.

musher0

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P.S. Also, I think I saw a typo in the first line of the English: "dekstop" instead of "desktop", or something like that._________________musher0
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